Wednesday, May 6, 2020
"The Music Box in Chicago has a kind of tip-line where people can call in and describe what streaming services they have and their programmers will recommend what to watch. It's been wildly …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]The covid-19 crisis has forced a sacrifice of so much of what makes opera so powerful " the massive casts, booming orchestras, elaborate staging and singular thrill of being present to exper…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:24PM[SHARE]The Ravinia and Grant Park cancellations bring this point home in one stunning blow, an entire musical season quashed before it started. We grieve these losses, knowing that they're slight c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]A new subscription plan that's part virtual, part in-theatre? Fierce scenario planning that projects out the next two years… " Philadelphia Inquirer
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]The problem is not audience participation. It may drop, but, as my analysis to follow shows, even if it drops 20, 30, or even 40 percent, that is not the drop we should worry about. What wil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]Plague columns haven't been much in fashion for nearly 300 years. But as the horrendous toll of death and suffering from today's modern coronavirus plague continues to climb, the time may ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Until recently, BPT had enjoyed a good reputation, sometimes called the David to Ticketmaster's Goliath. One unpaid client, the Taste of Philadelphia Food Tour, had been doing business with …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36PM[SHARE]What makes it hard to maintain our intellectual integrity in such times is that crises can expose some political truths, though we have to struggle to see straight and recognize the limits o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36PM[SHARE]"By the time the eight-week course was over, I was the wretch I am now: an unhinged woman vehemently obsessed with oil painting who wrestles with it like a feral person for hours every day. …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36PM[SHARE]"We have the power to decide to value art and culture in ways that support the kind of lives we want to be living. But to do that, we need more skin in the game"a greater shared commitment a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36PM[SHARE]For those governing and supporting museums, the old standards about the use and disposal of collections and endowments are rapidly risking obsolescence. Museums are, of course, property-rich…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36PM[SHARE]Nicola Benedetti already offered online music classes through her own Benedetti Foundation. But the lockdown made her wonder whether they could reach an even wider audience on social media p…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36PM[SHARE]The art world we return to"if there is one to return to at all"will be formed in this moment. This is the time to build our own institutions. Our shelter-in-place orders and the masses of wo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:36PM[SHARE]Mark Swed: "I've never heard a cellist make the instrument sing quite the way Harrell did. Despite his impressive physical presence " he had been an athlete in his youth and traded football …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03PM[SHARE]The average scientist's acquaintance with philosophy tends to be of the passing variety. This is a great pity. Deep-rooted, seemingly intractable problems in foundational theoretical physics…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]During the COVID-19 shutdown, live-streamed concerts have grown from a novelty born of necessity into a fixture of cultural life. D-Nice's dance parties (known to include a presidential cand…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:54PM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2020
The Danish city of Aarhus allowed popular singer Mads Langer to perform a drive-thru event at a newly constructed venue just outside the city. With six days' notice, the event sold 500 ticke…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM[SHARE]"There are systems we had before that are good and coming in handy, but there are new systems that are popping up all the time, too. I think it's going to change us for the better in the lon…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:12PM[SHARE]Called United We Stream, the combined live-streaming and fundraising platform hosts live music, DJ sets, performances and other live experiences from a growing roster of venues across Europe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]The rationale is clear enough. With families trapped inside by COVID-19, and children out of school and starting to climb the walls, a hyperactive new movie ought to be just the ticket. Also…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]In his new budget to cope with the revenue loss driven by the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Jim Kenney on Friday proposed the elimination of the city's Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]According to Nielsen, play time was up by 45 percent during the last week of March, while worldwide sales were up at least 44 percent. " FiveThirtyEight
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]Atlanta's Plaza movie theatre is famous after its vociferous opposition to Governor Brian Kemp's decision to reopen theaters. But the theatre has been adapting its operations, offering onlin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]It's no great mystery why. Poetry is sticky. Prose slips. Barbed and spurred, poems catch in your chest; they get stuck in your head like songs. Still, to admit to liking poetry is faintly e…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]Among the USPTO's arguments is the fact that US patent law repeatedly refers to inventors using humanlike terms such as "whoever" and pronouns like "himself" and "herself." The group behind …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]Horchow was the first retailer to sell high-end goods by mail-order catalog " without first opening a bricks-and-mortar store on the street to establish its reputation with buyers. He was so…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 2, 2020
The web has its own culture, it's own language, its own ethos. Putting facsimile arts experiences online won't cut it. And yet, we need to develop a hybrid model that includes the online exp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:42AM[SHARE]Friday, May 1, 2020
"As it currently stands, the publishing industry largely serves the interests of the wealthiest higher-ups, and that is the entire reason for any financial strain on publishers without the c…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]Closing a museum is not just a matter of shutting the doors and turning off the lights. Institutions with significant collections have ethical and sometimes legal obligations to make sure th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]Why is it in the UK we are afraid of expressing big thinking, challenging the government to a discussion about the indispensability of the arts and making the case that its practitioners are…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06PM[SHARE]Iceland has tested its population widely for virus, and has had few cases so it could be safe for shooting. The country, with its sparsely populated but spacious North Atlantic geography, ad…
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